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by oxyuranus on January 29, 2008
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Hi Folks,
I want to thank everyone once again for all their support in this contest. It is now on the final straight and will be over at 11:59 pm Singapore time on 31 January - check to see how this translates to your own local time if you are going to post last minute votes...
A number of people have been monitoring the voting for the last couple of weeks, and there appears to be a very clear pattern emerging that involves him pulling in very large numbers of votes at extremely unusual times. Last night for example he posted 530 votes between midnight & 3:00 am (Islamabad local time) and another 690 votes between 3:00-5:35 am. Interestingly the first Muslim morning prayer session (Fajr) started in Pakistan at 5:40 am today...
On the 28th January he posted 395 votes between midnight and 01:20 am, followed by another block of 295 votes between 5:00-6:30 pm that same day... in between he got only 10 votes - during the middle of the Pakistani working day.
It seems highly unlikely that these sudden bursts of voting, mostly very late at night could be the result of hundreds of random people accessing the site and deciding to vote for the same guy. What is much more likely is that he and few family/friends are mass-registering email addresses and then submitting large blocks of votes at time when they thing nobody is likely to notice a sudden rise...
All we can do is play fair, and trust the promoters to check the validity of the votes after the contest finishes tomorrow night. They won't be declaring a winner until the 14th February, so I am sure they intend to sure those two weeks to compare email addresses to IP or MAC addresses on the originating emails, and if that is the case I am confident that any cheating will be uncovered.
Cheers, and once again, thanks for all your support.
David
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